Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maass, however, commented, "I thank God that the GSAS handles applications and admissions for us. We couldn't pos-for admission to our department each sibly handle them all. Hundreds apply year and only about 35 can be accepted...
...beer ("Yours for a freer Oxford, where publicans can be law-abiding publicans six days a week"), he reported that a hit-run driver had killed his bird dog ("His name was Pete. He was just a dog, a 15-month-old pointer"), and he took an ad to thank the mayor for removing a sign that had been posted near his gate. In a tartly humorous public notice in the Weekly Eagle, he dressed down hunters who were invading his property: "The posted woods on my property inside the city limits of Oxford contain several tame squirrels. Any hunter...
...have been days when the 18th played easier; a San Franciscan named Mat Palacio once hit a drive in the general direction of China and muttered, "Only God can save that one." Whereupon the waves rolled back and the ball caromed off a convenient rock straight onto the fairway. "Thank you, God," sighed Palacio...
Smiled Ted Williams angelically: "I want to thank the writers for making all this possible." That was about the only nice thing Ted has ever had to say about the press, but of course, the newsmen deserved it-since the Baseball Writers' Association of America had just elected him to the Baseball Hall of Fame by a record vote of 282 out of 302. There was no question he deserved it either. The last of the .400 sluggers (.406 in 1941), Ted hit 521 homers in 19 seasons with the Boston Red Sox, emerged with a career batting average...
...than Christ. But the deeper reason is that the Vatican Council's liturgical reforms have given Catholics an opportunity to participate actively at Mass, thus making it vastly more meaningful than the novena as an expression of their faith. Says one Boston priest: "The Mass has taken over-thank...